How soon before alt social media is targeted like this?

Pick-ups didn’t used to be huge though, see the S10/S15 for instance, a modern-day Colorado/Canyon dwarfs an S10/S15 from the final year they were sold in the US.

Adding a few extra hoops to jump through could be similar to abolishing pickups while still allowing reasonable exceptions, maybe requiring extra drivers training

• At the same time though, if someone needed to pull large trailers for whatever reason, but didn’t need a full-on class-7 or class-8 rig and the CDL requirements that go with that, they could just use a class-5 or class-6 chassis-cab rig for that purpose and then use a van for various field work or picking up small amounts of cargo. That van for field work would even be preferable both because of having the ability to lock one’s tools up and also having a sheltered workspace to do things in so they don’t have to get rained on and the like, and can work under A/C or heat during a particularly hot or cold day.

Great! Now can we have this in the US too, please? Like, semis and other class-8 commercial trucks at least have a valid excuse to be massive (and even then, Europe manages to make their semis smaller than in the US while still having equivalent GVWRs by way of cabovers still being common over there, while cabovers are all but extinct in the US outside of trash trucks and fire trucks, basically); they’re typically carrying payloads as heavy as 100k+ lbs in some cases, and need specialized licensing to operate on top of that (CDL requirements kick in at class-7, or GVWRs above 26k lbs in the US, class-8 is 33k+ lbs, and semis are typically 80k lb GVWRs), but pick-ups really don’t need to be as big as they are, they have no excuse.

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Friendica.

Plaster would be really fun to get into playing with, but I just don’t have the space for something that messy, eg. if you soak cloths in the plaster and put them on an armature of some kind, the mess level with that is like paper mache turned up to 11, and would be just as fun to play with; but that type of thing really needs room to breathe, as it were.

A non-traditional lawn? Instead of just grass everywhere, set up a biodiverse lawn with wild grasses that are safe for bunnies and such to eat as well as other things which don’t require constant watering or mowing or anything and also attract bees and such.

This is gonna kill Linux, which I’m sure is the intention.

Even PCs are leaning in that direction now, eg. with Strix Halo’s IGP legitimately beating some mid-range GPUs.

ENG has even standardized on a DIN plug for power delivery since forever as well; anything from camcorders to monitors or studio cameras uses a DIN plug for external power. Cathode Ray Dude goes over this stuff quite a bit in some of his earlier vids.

Leave the US for a country that hasn’t turned into a dictatorship yet.

It’s gone for good now, fully replaced by the Mac Studio.

This is probably an extreme take, but kids shouldn’t be anywhere near a tablet while they’re still really young especially.

Well, I did a huge chalk drawing on a sheet of tiling backer board for an art contest once over a decade ago and ended up looking like a smurf by the end of it.

The fact that chalk is as messy as it is is a huge part of why it’s so fun to play with, chalk is basically like dry fingerpaints, at least if you forego the blending stump.

But yeah, the biggest messes I’ve made in recent years are any time I’ve gotten my chalk out to play with basically.

Beyond that there’s playing in the mud when I was a really young kid and still living in Washington state at the time, and the countless glitter crafts and stuff I did in school growing up like pretty much everyone else in here has probably done.

PS: I hope I’m not the only one on this thread whose messes are normal, and just part of, and IMO the fun part of, making physical art or crafts in the case of my chalk art story. Like, I’ve come across some screwed-up stories on this thread and mine seem to be the most normal of the bunch.

The ENG field has had two battery mount standards in the form of the V-mount and the Anton Bauer Gold Mount for decades now, and both are interchangeable; you could swap a Gold Mount plate for a V-mount plate or vice-versa.

And on the consumer front, Sony’s Infolithium might as well be standardized as there’s lights which use Infolithium packs and you can buy generic battery packs in that format and still be able to power your Handycam from the mid '90s, for example.

That’s what sealed-beam headlights used to be before composite housings which are proprietary to a given vehicle were legalized.

In fact, sealed-beams are still widely used in commercial vehicles because of their standardization to a point where they can be picked up anywhere and they’re just gonna work.

An open phone standard, and no, I do not mean the ‘Open Handset Alliance’ that doesn’t even live up to its name, I mean like an ATX-equivalent standard for mobile devices.

An open-source ISA already exists in RISC-V, maybe that hypothetical ATX-for-mobile-devices standard could standardize around that for starters, as for an OS, it could standardize around non-Android Linux and maybe even some BSD mobile OSes instead of Google pulling some MS-in-the-'90s crap for Android like they’re doing right now.

Devuan is also a low-friction alt-init option for those who are on Debian, and then of course one could go to Void or Slackware as well.

If you’re already on Arch, Artix will be easier to move to, although you’ll need to enable Arch’s [extra] and [multilib] repos to fix any potential dependency issues from some packages not being available in the Artix repos.

And with any Arch install, which also includes Artix, CachyOS, or EndeavourOS, I’ll still recommend enabling [chaotic-aur] as it makes dealing with the AUR easier as it offers most of the AUR as precompiled binaries.

That’s an option, and one I already took having recently moved to Artix.